Brace

Brace, CHARLES LORING, an American author and philanthropist, born at Litchfield, Connecticut, 19th June 1826, studied theology in New York, where he took up the question of the education and housing of the poor. He founded the Children's Aid Society in 1853, and subsequently acted as its secretary; its annual income is about a quarter of a million dollars, and it has provided homes for over 60,000 children. He published notes of visits to Hungary (1852), Germany (1853), Norway (1857), and California (1869), besides The Races of the Old World (1863), Gesta Christi (1882), and other works. He died in the Engadine, 11th August 1890.